For this project I decided to create an interview segment of people answering the question what Gamma Phi Beta’s philanthropy means to you. This project idea relates to my course topic because my course topic is my sorority’s philanthropy. I decided to do this because I wanted the audience to hear from other people what this philanthropy means to them and how it has impacted them. I was inspired by listening to other radio show interviewees and from this week’s readings interview examples. The significance of the elements of my design are my interview show trustworthiness because they all say similar things about how it’s impacted them in a positive way in their life.

My design process was first I recorded the answers from my peers using the voice recorder on my phone. Then I went into Audition and trimmed each of them down cutting out the beginning and end pauses and any pauses or “uh or ums” in between. I also had to adjust the sound level of some of the voices because my interviewees got quiet at some points while I was interviewing them. I then put them in a order that seemed to flow well and have a significant change of tone. Lastly, I added background music and I used the tools to have it fad in, fad out, and quiet enough so it would not overpower the interview voices. I collected the elements in my project by using music from last week’s counting tutorial and by asking three members of my sorority to answer my question. I asked our chapter president about our philanthropy because she is very involved and passionate about it. I also asked one of my good friends Delaney because she is very supportive of our philanthropy. Lastly, I interviewed my friend Dakota because she is also passionate about our philanthropy and has seen how it impacted her teammates from row in the past. Overall, I feel happy about how my audio story draft turned out.

Here are three raw audio footages from members of Gamma Phi Beta including our chapter president, and a member who is also on the womens row team and their take on what our philanthropy means to them and what it is about.

My logo was made for my sorority’s philanthropy, building strong girls, which is also my topic for this course. The logo is three silhouettes of girls standing in a strong, confident stance with the title that says, “We build strong girls.” When creating the girl’s silhouette, I was inspired by a statue in New York City known as the “fearless girl.” She stands before an intimidating bull but has a strong and fearless stance. I knew I wanted to have a girl standing with her hands on her hip, and that’s when I thought of this statue and what it represents. I knew I wanted to include it in my project.

My design process started with created a circle while holding down “shift”. I then added the text “we build strong girls.” Next, I found a photo of the “fearless girl” online. I used the pen tool to outline the shape of the girl. I used the shape builder tool and used vectors to make sure it could be scalable. After this, I copied this to create three girls. I adjected the shape and size of each to make them appear slightly different. I decided to create 3 girls because the number 3 is significant to Gamma Phi Beta. I also think having 3 girls gives balance to the logo look. I then added the Greek letters of Gamma Phi Beta to add detail and familiarity. Lastly, I used the gradient tool to the circle background to create a gradient look. I used pink because it is Gamma Phi Beta’s color.

After reviewing the comments my peers gave me and some self-reflection of my own work, there are a couple of different things I planned to do in my final draft. I wanted to first redo my outlines of the girls and add hair and shoes to them. I think my first draft was a good start and has a good foundation, but I can add more details to it to make it stronger.

In my final draft, first thing I did was add details to the outline of the girls. I ended having to redo the outline. I added hair and shoes the girl. I also decided to not give her a dress or skirt because it gave a more feminine look and I think she looks stronger without it. I also changed the text by using the add text on a path tool which helped make it more aligned with the circle. I also changed the background color to a lighter pink and added a black stroke so it could have a more versatile use as a logo. Overall, I am pleased with how it turned out!

Here are my sources:

http://web.mit.edu/jmorzins/www/greek-alphabet.html

https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/wall-street-bull-fearless-girl-statue

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This is my sketch for my logo that reads “we build strong girls” and the Gamma Phi Beta Greek letters and has three girls in a confident strong stance.